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April 29, 2004
the face! not the face!!!
The head. Why is it always the head? Nothing else. No groin sprains, no shin splints, no muscle spasms. Just knocks to the head. Perhaps it is because I have a big head.
Last night at practice a teammate stomped on my face during a drill and did this to me. I felt his every cleat on my face. Later on I called him a douche bag and told him that all my hopes for getting laid this weekend were ruined because of him. He said sorry and hugged me. Awwww. We have sensitive straight guys on our team. They're cute.
But hey, if it maintains this cherry red color and doesn't turn ochre or puke yellow, I'm already totally accessorized for the Cherry 9 parties this weekend! I'll be on crack patrol (come on...the wolf tending the sheep) from Midnight to 2am Saturday night at Nation. I'm not expecting the work to be too demanding.
Happy Arbor Day! Yesterday we finally got our new tree for our tree box on the streetside. All of the rest of the trees on the blocks are maples. Our new tree is an elm. But at least it's alive. The last tree we got was Dead On Arrival, and when we called to tell them it was dead, they sent a person out to check the tree. Seeing lichen on the bark of the dead tree, they declared it was in fact alive, even though it had no leaves and its twigs snapped like dry matchsticks. Gotta love the DC Urban Forestry Administration.
Too bad the DC government isn't getting too much out of the Casey Trees Foundation, a local nonprofit that so far has done a much-needed inventory of the urban forest of DC. We are long overdue for some good urban canopy management, replacement of problem snag trees, and planting less invasive species whose roots go straight for your sewer lines. Oh yeah, and don't get me started on all the female gingko trees in this town. Another related link: American Forests.
Posted by jimbo at April 29, 2004 9:43 PM
Comments
ouch! It's kind of sexy.
Posted by: Ryan at April 29, 2004 11:16 PM
muy sexy!!!
Posted by: brent at April 30, 2004 1:57 AM
Bruise or not, you're a hot guy, I'm sure you'll get laid.
Posted by: Archerr at April 30, 2004 4:48 AM
Yeah. It's hot because it happened during RUGBY! All those male bodies colliding ... Mmmmm, mmmm.
Posted by: Chas. at April 30, 2004 10:10 AM
You're the only person I know that can still be woofy, or even woofier with a big ol' boo boo on your forehead. How do you do it?
*kisses a boo boo*
Posted by: mark at April 30, 2004 11:02 AM
Ooh, I think this may be my first comment on your blog, so, hello. I cannot resist pointing out to you that a) your injury does not look that bad, especially paired with that "don't fuck with me" expression, and b) if you don't play it up for all that it's worth and garner enormous amounts of sympathy from hunky people who will want to kiss it and make it better, then you're missing out on a golden opportunity.
OK, given the color of the injury, more like a ruby opportunity.
What?
Posted by: Jeff at April 30, 2004 11:24 AM
What Jeff said.
Posted by: Darren at April 30, 2004 6:10 PM
How cute your booboo. Makes me want to kiss it and make it all better.
Thanks for the plug for forestry. What a model citizen you are!
Posted by: Ron at April 30, 2004 7:57 PM
You almost look butch! But still damn sexy. GRRRR.
Posted by: Bubba at April 30, 2004 10:21 PM
it's a very casey spooner look...albeit last year
Posted by: donald at May 2, 2004 5:48 PM